Leave a treat for ♥ Purrscilla ♥ Nicknames: PURRsimmon, Little Tart, Braveheart, Felinious PURR-SILLY-ous, Little Miss Prissy Pants, The INSTIGATOR!!! Kitty Complexion:
On behalf of my family, I am sad to report my human Mommy`s dad passed away on Feb. 28, 2012. He had Glioblastoma Multiforme (brain cancer), which he was diagnosed with at Christmas 2011. he was 80 years old & when the doctors told him at "the family conference" in the hospital, he said, "Time waits for no one. I lived a good life." If anyone would like to make a Memorial Contribution, please do so at: American Cancer Society, 525 N. Broad St., Canfield, Ohio, 44406. Thank you, Purrscilla & family. Mommy hopes to get back on catster as soon as possible to fix our pages, mol...*hugs & purrs to all!
I am THEEEEEEEEEE Mighty Huntress indeed! After 7 years of never seein a REAL mouse, I finally caught one, killed it & placed it next to my mom`s shoes, hehe!!! Naturally Freddie & Katrina had to double-team a miniscule centipede, MOL!!!
A Tribute to All Veterans, Troops Still Serving & Their Families...:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
A Little Bit of History....
The lyrics to this beautiful song were written by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) an instructor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, after an inspiring trip to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado, in 1893. Her poem, America the Beautiful first appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. Ms. Bates revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913. In addition to those changes in the words, it is notable that the poem was not always sung to the tune presented on this website ("Materna," composed by Samuel A. Ward in 1882, nearly a decade before the poem was written). In fact, for two years after it was written it was sung to just about any popular or folk tune that would fit with the lyrics, with "Auld Lang Syne" being the most notable of those. The words were not published together with "Materna" until 1910, and even after that time, the tune to be used was challenged to some degree. For example, in 1926 the National Federation of Music Clubs held a contest to put the poem to new, reportedly "less somber," music, but no other entry was determined to be more acceptable. Before her death in 1929, Ms. Bates never indicated publicly which music she liked best, but it now appears likely that America the Beautiful will forever be associated with "Materna."
The Dog Show: Who's Your Mama?
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